Laboratory of Electronic Sensors

Laboratory of Electronic Sensors
National Technical University of Athens

Organisation type: 
University
Country: 
Greece
Short name: 
LES
Description: 

National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece is the leading TU of Greece, with 9 Schools, 550 Staff and 25,000 students. It is one of the leading organizations in Europe concerning competitive projects. The Laboratory of Electronic Sensors (Sensors Lab), is active on magnetism, magnetic materials and their applications as well as other electronic materials. The group is well experienced in magnetic materials and their applications to sensors and systems, as well as in designing new instrumentation for testing and characterization. The Laboratory of Electronic Sensors (LES) is involved in the manufacturing and treatment of bulk materials, thin films, rapidly quenched materials, powders etc., by using planar flow casting, chemical vapour deposition, film oxidation, physical vapour deposition, electrodeposition, wet milling, annealing & field annealing and stress-current annealing techniques. It also performs properties determination using alternating gradient field magnetometry, magnetostriction measurements, magnetotransport properties, ac susceptibility and all of them with parametric control of frequency, temperature and stress monitoring. The group is also involved in projects related to the design of sensors and sensor systems for various applications. All these activities have resulted in smart specialization for instrumentation and measurement in manufacturing. The group is strongly related with local and European enterprises concerning the transformation of the prototypes developed at the laboratory to pre-industrial products and final products. In the recent years, the Laboratory is active in advanced manufacturing processes related to electromagnetically enhanced methods for monitoring the structural health monitoring and conditioning of metals and their process. The Sensors lab is the only laboratory in the word that provide a clear correlation between residual stress tensor and permeability tensor, as it is proven from the recent publications of the group. The lab has 3 faculty members, 7 Postdoctoral Fellows, 15 PhD candidates, and several graduate/undergraduate students. Its Alumni comprises more than 30 members, now faculty members in various universities, or research personnel in Greek and European industries.

International: 
Yes